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Severe Thunderstorm Warning 46, NWS Phoenix, AZ

September 4, 2009La Paz County, Maricopa County, Arizona

NWS Phoenix, AZ issued this severe thunderstorm warning at Sep 4, 2009, 6:41 PM MST for La Paz County, Maricopa County, Arizona. It was in force for 34 min. No storm report in the archive falls inside the area while it was in force.

The area

The counties it named.

The facts

Issued: Sep 4, 2009, 6:41 PM MST (01:41 UTC)
Expired: Sep 4, 2009, 7:15 PM MST
In force: 34 min
Issued by: NWS Phoenix, AZ
Area: Storm-based polygon

Counties La Paz County, AZ, Maricopa County, AZ

The radar

The Phoenix radar (KIWA), 148 km from the middle of the area, began a volume at 01:41 UTC, the scan nearest the moment this went out.

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What forecasters said that day

The local office's own words before this severe thunderstorm warning went out, as it sent them, from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service text.

NWS Phoenix, AZ wrote its last area forecast discussion before this severe thunderstorm warning went out at Sep 4, 2:45 PM MST, 3 hours 56 minutes earlier.

Area forecast discussion, Sep 4, 2:45 PM MST, 3 hours 56 minutes before

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Hazardous weather outlook, Sep 4, 5:40 AM MST, 13 hours 1 minute before

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In the hours before

Special weather statement, Sep 4, 3:16 PM MST, 3 hours 25 minutes before

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Special weather statement, Sep 4, 6:08 PM MST, 33 minutes before

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The office that day

Everything else NWS Phoenix, AZ issued on the same UTC day.

Issued	Product	Office	Counties	Lasted
Sep 4, 5:22 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Gila	113 min
Sep 4, 6:08 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	La Paz	37 min
Sep 4, 6:31 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	La Paz, Maricopa, Yuma	104 min
Sep 4, 8:21 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	La Paz	70 min
Sep 5, 7:04 AM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	116 min
Sep 5, 9:13 AM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	2 hr
Sep 5, 10:33 AM MST	Flash Flood Watch	PSR		8 hr
Sep 5, 11:22 AM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	Maricopa, Pinal	113 min
Sep 5, 1:11 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Yuma	28 min
Sep 5, 1:18 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	La Paz, Yuma	102 min
Sep 5, 1:29 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	PSR	La Paz	61 min
Sep 5, 1:43 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Yuma	29 min
Sep 5, 2:35 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR	Yuma	55 min
Sep 5, 2:37 PM MST	Flash Flood Warning	PSR	La Paz, Yuma	53 min
Sep 5, 3:06 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	La Paz, Yuma	114 min
Sep 5, 3:18 PM MST	Special Weather Statement	PSR		42 min
Sep 5, 3:57 PM MST	Severe Thunderstorm Warning	PSR	Yuma	33 min
Sep 5, 4:13 PM MST	Areal Flood Advisory	PSR	La Paz, Yuma	52 min

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Sources

The product and its follow-ups from the Iowa Environmental Mesonet's archive of National Weather Service and Storm Prediction Center text; radar from the NEXRAD Level II archive.